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Lights Out · Spite

EXERCISE 1 OF 87
Groove O -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART D
PART G
PART S4
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AQ
CHORUS 2
PART AM
PART N
OUTRO
14 groovesOAMS4ACBG+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lights Out on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
77/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-8, toms through bars 9-18, silence through bars 19-23, toms through bars 24-31 and snare through bars 32-39, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 32-33, 36-37 and 40, and 5 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32                                               33
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----x-----|x--x--------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------X-----------------------|------------------------X-----------------------|
BD |x--------------------x--------------------x-----|---x-----------------x-----------x--x-----x-----|
Lights Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 24, 25, 26 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 12-18 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part S4 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part S4 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lights Out?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Lights Out hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 20 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lights Out?

19 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 24, 25, 26 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED